Improvement in pocket-books



N. PETERS, PHOTO-L THOGDAFHER WASHINGTON D C @met @Mira FREDERICK unites,

or NEWJYORK, N. Y.

Letters Pate/nt No. 95,797, dated October 12, 1869.

AIIIVIPROVIILEIEIN'T IN'y POCKET-BOOKS.'

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

1'0 all whom 'it 'may concern;

Be it known that I, FREDERICK HEILEs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a Figure 2 isan under-sideview of my improved iastening detached.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the fastening, in the line x x of g. 2.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to pocket and other books, and consists in an improved locket or fastening, for securing the elastic band, which in some kinds of pocket-books, and memorandum and other books, goes around the `book,`my improved locket or fastening being so made and arranged that the ends of the elastic band can 'be inserted therein, from the outside, and be securely fastened by a slide or bolt..

My improvement enables one to renew the band at pleasure, without requiring an artisan, the withdrawal of the slide orbolt serving to release the ends of the band, audit is then only necessary to insert the ends of a fresh band, and push in the slide or bolt, when the work of renewal is completed.

The letterA designates an elastic band, such as is commonly used to go around pocket-books and other articles, which it is desired to keepin a compact condition.

Such bands have sometimes been secured to the outside of such articles by rivets, or they have been riveted to ornamental metal plates, which are com-` monly fastened on the articles.

One objection to this .old mode, is the diculty of renewing the band, when it is worn or frayed, as the work is such as requires an artisan, with proper tools.

My improvement obviates this objection, and enables persons withoutunechanical skill, and without tools, to removethe bld band, and insert a new one, at pleasure.

I fasten the band to the pocket-book, or other ar- Y ticle, so as to be removable or detachable, and I aocomplish the same by means of a slide or bolt, which contines the ends of the band between itself or its edges, and the edges of two parallel plates, which are permanently fixed to the article, provision being made for a cavity or groove, for the slide or bolt to move in, where it is held fast by frictioufor by a springsnap.

In the example here shown, I carry out my invention in the following manner:

The letter B designates a fiat locket or box,

which I tack or rivet fast to vthe outside of the pocket-book, the tacks, rivets, or other fastening being put through the edges of the locket, or through flanges or lugs C, project-ing from its edges.

-The central part of the box or locket is ,ele-

vated labove the faces of those parts which come in contact-with the pocket-book, as is shown in iig. 3, the object being to allow room for the ends i of the band A under the locket, and also to give strength and stiffness, and a suitable finish to the locket.

This central raised part is cut away'at the centre thereof, as shown at D, figs. 2 and 3, and the lateral edges of the opening are serrated, as there shown, 'to enable them the better to hold'on to the band, when its ends are inserted in the locket.

Over this opening D, I place a plate, E, whose .length may be equal to the length ot' the box or locket, to produce uniformity of appearance, but its width is less than the opening D, so as to allow the easy insertion of the ends of the band, the serrations on the edges ofthe opening extending partly across the intervals. i

The top plate E is soldered or attached to the top of the locket, at the places F F F F F, along its sides and at its left-hand end, leaving open spaces G at its sides, which communicate withA the opening D, and

leaving, also, a iiat opening H, under one end ot' plate E, into' which I insert the locking slide I.

The slide I is a long flat plate, which is so made Vand arranged. that it can slide back and forth under plate E, but cannot be removed entirely.

Its inner end, J, may be made of a greater width than that of opening H, `or with a slit, as in the drawing, so that it cannotpass through.

The slide moves over the serrated edges of opening D, and so close to the serratious-as to confine the band, or any substance which has been passed through the openings G, into the openingD.

The inner end, J, when the slide is shoved home, is concealed in the hollow space between the plate E and' the top ofthe body of the locket, at its lett-hand cud, (observing fig. 2.) In fig. 2 the slide is shown partly drawn out.

. XVhen the ends of the band are to be inserted, it should be drawn out far enough to leave'the open spaces G unobstructed, and after the ends are iuserted,' it is shoved inward, as seen in g. 2.

I form at the other, or opposite end of the loeket, serrations e, the top plate B, and the locking slide I,

an ornament, L, of like shape with the handle. When the parts are construct-ed substantially as here- The shape of the locketiA can be changed, to suit in described. the judgment or taste of the maker, without; depart- FREDERICK HEILES.

ing from the principle of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- Witnesses:

ters Patent, is- E. F. KASTENHUBER,

The locket, consisting of the raised portion E, the G.'WAHLERS. 

